220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within primitive society. The book does not limit itself to the customs and traditions of burial, but also... Read more
Preface Introduction 1. The Cave of Aurignac 2. The journey of the Dead 3. Funeral Offerings 4. Orientation of Graves 5. The Land of the Dead 6. Lost Atlantis 7. Underground Regions of the Dead 8. Dwellings and Graves 9. The Breton Lake of the Dead 10. Change and Forgetting 11. The Life of the Dead 12. Funeral Offerings 13. Ghosts 14. Ancestor Worship 15. Concurrent Methods of Burial 16. Tree Burial 17. Mourning 18. Relics of Voluntary Outlawry 19. Prison 20. Conclusion
Biography
W. H. F. Basevi
